Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-08

more than the realization OF q more
distract idea. recruiting the majority
Of their aherents among those who hate
society because society closes TO them
certain careers which they had hoped
might have raised them above the
station in which they were born. The
late Gar was generously inspired by
Knitting education within the grasp OF
all classes but in order to make the
idea practically useful it would have
been necessary TO give public functions
10 the intelligent graduates OF Tue pun
lie schools and make both reforms CO.
eyal. This was not done, perhaps, be-
cause TO DO it was impossible, and so
the students. who are useless to that
society which they were disposed TO
serve, without resources, unable 10 aug
and ashamed to beg, have become the
curse of society, and thus was accom-
plished The transformation OF phllo-
sophical Nihilism into political Mill
ism. of which the end aimed at IS An
archism.
Tie Times of London announces as
I'm almost accomplished fact the SUB
stitution Of general officer for Count
Tolstoi as Minister of the Interior, and
ARGUES crgo that this change, coming
Immediately after the discovery OF
conspiracy. indicates the abandonment
of a liberal for a reactiOnnry regime;
As usuol, the Times, of London, Is oil
at sea the thunderer and its CORE
spondent forget, if they ever knew, that
Tolstoi is the intimate friend OF Nj.
Pobiedonotszof, the Procureur OF the
Holy Synod, and of NJ. Katkoff, and
is. like them, one OF the champions
of the autocratic principle, which he
has given preponderancy to throughout
his administration. If, then, NJ. Tolstoi
should be replaced and that circum-
stance be the signal for a change OF
policy, it is because the representative
Tegime is to give way to r6Dfmc OF
more liberal tendencies As to the
choice of military man nearing the
triumph of authoritarianism, necessari-
" the Times, of London, is again
wrong. for both the Ministers of the
Interiors who preceded Tolstoi were
general officers. The Liberal party
came into power with Count Louis
Melikoff, and it was he who
gave Constitution to Russia n
reaction against the reformatory ten
denotes of Count Ignatieff marked the
accession of Count Tolstoi to the Min
istry of the Interior. Equally errone-
GUS is the deduction of the Times, OF
London, that Count Tolstoi is in dis
grace; he will keep his post so long as
lie wants it, being too strongly backed
bv Pobiedonostzof and Katkoff, and
too great a fayorite with the Gar for
anything of that kind. If he does go
out it will be spontaneously and simply
because of the state OF his health.
A good many changes may be ex-
pected shortly in the Russian Cabinet,
ard of these the most important IS the
retreat Of NJ. de Giers, who demanded
and was refused the disavowal OF NJ.
Eatkoff, whose violent anti-German ar
ticle in the Moscow Gdzctte so enraged
Prince Bismarck, Of whom the Minister
of Foreign Affairs is denounced as
" creature by the Vice-Emperor.
Some little hesitation in the choice
Of successor keeps NJ. de Giers
where he is at present, but his
ministerial days are numbered, and
as coming events cast their shadows
before, it is presumable that shortly
after Easter the Panslayists, otherwise
tie Nationalist, will put their chosen
vessel at the helm of affairs in the per
son OF the man who drew out the treaty
Of San Stefano, or, should that APP
rointment be too significant, Of some
one who will be the executor OF his
rolicy.